Leena Puranen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leena Puranen | ||
| Date of birth | 18 October 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Tampere, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) |
Forward Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kungsbacka DFF | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TPV | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Ilves | |||
| Pietarsaari | |||
| 2006–2007 | HJK | ||
| 2008 | Örebro | 21 | (3) |
| 2009–2011 | Hammarby | 45 | (7) |
| 2012–2013 | Jitex | 41 | (2) |
| 2014– | Kungsbacka DFF | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2007– | Finland | 55 | (6) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC) | |||
Leena Puranen (born 18 October 1986) is a Finnish football forward who plays for Swedish lower division team Kungsbacka DFF. In 2012 and 2013 she played for Jitex BK in Sweden's Damallsvenskan.[2] She previously played for FC Ilves, United Pietarsaari and HJK in the Naisten Liiga, and KIF Örebro and Hammarby IF in the Swedish league.
Puranen made her senior Finland women's national football team debut in a 4–0 friendly defeat to the United States in Carson, California on 25 August 2007.[3] In May 2009 Puranen suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, which ruled her out of UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland.[4]
National coach Andrée Jeglertz selected Puranen in Finland's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013,[5] but she did not play in any of their three games at the tournament.
When Jitex let several players go for financial reasons after the 2013 season, Puranen moved to Division 1 Kungsbacka DFF. By the mid season break she had scored 16 goals at the lower level.[6]
References
- ^ "Leena Puranen" (in Finnish). OrsaSport. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ Sweden: Jitex becoming bigger and bigger. Wsoccernews
- ^ "Leena Puranen" (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ Erävuori, Mikael (1 June 2009). "Finland lose Puranan for women's finals". UEFA. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ "Jeglertz turns to youth for Finland". Uefa.com. UEFA. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ Tuominen, Jukka (29 June 2014). "Jalkapalloilija Leena Puranen nautiskelee 1. divisioonassa" (in Finnish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
External links
- Leena Puranen – FIFA competition record (archived)
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Finnish women's footballers
- Finland women's international footballers
- Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
- Jitex BK players
- Damallsvenskan players
- Hammarby IF DFF players
- KIF Örebro DFF players
- Finnish expatriate footballers
- HJK Helsinki (women) players
- Naisten Liiga players
- FC United (Jakobstad) players
- Women's association football biography stubs
- Finnish football biography stubs